Everything is connected with everything else.
However, for every single truth (or assumed as verity), there is a "transversal" one. All these transversal truths constitute the contradictions of modern life.

Monday, July 17, 2006

Haifa, 13/07/2006, 18:58

I will keep my friend's name and affiliation for security reasons.

Israel vs. Lebanon

Shalom to you all (Pax vobiscum),

I do not know what information is transmitted by your local media.Therefore, I would like to tell what we know here. Hizbollah perpetrated yesterday an unprovoked attack on our forces. They wounded and kidnapped two soldiers, killed eight and wounded more. Our army reacted in legitimateself-defense. The answer was a shower of Katiusha rockets that continuesto this our. A woman killed, 90 civilians wounded. In Majd-el-Krum, aMoslem village, there are 20 wounded. Zefat (Safed), the town of theKabalists, is among those bombed. I am angry on our government becausetheir only response is a military one, while I think that there are othermeans too. At this hour the Hizbollah is threatening to shell Haifa.

For instance, I find it unacceptable that Khaled Mashal, the Capo of theHamas, talks freely against us on Syrian TV, and Nasrallah , the Capo ofHizbollah, talks freely and violently against us, from his own TV onLebanese territory. I would have expected our government, not me, to askthe following questions. What would be the reaction of the Spanishgovernment if ETA terrorists would speak freely against Spain, on FrenchTV? What would be the creation of the French government if Corsicanindependists would speak against France on Italian TV? What would be thereaction of Italian government if independists from South Tyrol wouldspeak against Italy on Austrian TV? hat would be the reaction of theRussian government if any Western TV chain would allow Tchechen separatiststo violently attack Russia?

The Lebanese prime minister claimed yesterday that he knows nothing aboutthe Hizbollah aggression on its Southern border. Is he in command or not?And if not, can Lebanon be called an independent state that can sit in theUN? Who is making the rule in Lebanon, its democratically chosengovernment, or a militia controlled by foreign powers, that is Syria andIran?

The world says that Israel is causing misery in the Gaza strip. At thesame time, those who incite the Palestinians to kill and kidnap Israelisare living comfortably abroad and appear well-fed and well-dressed on TV.I mean again Khaled Mashal and Nasrallah, the latter looking rather fat.They do not look like fastening or morning for the fate of their belovedPalestinians. By the way, when I was student, a colleague

Politically-correct people are talking about a humanitary emergency in theGaza strip. Public opinion polls show that about 70% of the Gazapopulation approves the abduction of the Israeli soldier Shalit, isagainst his immediate return, and wants more kidnapings. It does not seemthat the large majority of Palestinians care for their humanitarysituation. The only thing they really care for is revenge.

Why does not our government say these truths? I think that telling themmay be the equivalent of several shells.